I don't like to say bad things about paleontologists, but they're not very good scientists. They're more like stamp collectors. — Luis Walter Alvarez Copy Share Image
“Geneticists are a group of mathematicians who have taken over the Neanderthal Paleontology Guild. They call the shots now.” — Bill Gaede Copy Share Image
“Hammond turned to Gennaro. "You know, of course, what Dr. Grant and Dr. Sattler do. They are paleontologists. They dig up dinosaurs."… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Almost all paleontologists recognize that the discovery of a complete transition is in any case unlikely. — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
“A geneticist is a geek who claims to have proven through regression analyses that a Neanderthal had sex with your great-grandmother 50,000… — Bill Gaede Copy Share Image
Certainly paleontologists have found samples of an extremely small fraction, only, of the earth's extinct species, and even for groups that are… — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
The observation that species are amazingly conservative and static entities throughout long periods of time has all the qualities of the emperor's… — Niles Eldredge Copy Share Image
Paleontologists [fossil experts] have paid an exorbitant price for Darwin's argument. We fancy ourselves as the only true students of life's history,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“The places paleontologists looked for fossils and how those fossils have been interpreted have been influenced by politics and culture, reminding us… — Brian Switek Copy Share Image
“Since the landmark 1972 paper by Gould and Eldredge, many studies have been done both with real populations and with mathematical simulations.… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
“After a handful of geeks sequenced the Neanderthal genome and found a 2% match, they opened the flood gates to hundreds of… — Bill Gaede Copy Share Image
“Historians and paleontologists have a great rivalry," said Tetsuo. "Most contact missions arrive too late, after history has ended. The people we… — Leonard Richardson Copy Share Image
Paleontologists ever since Darwin have been searching (largely in vain) for the sequences of insensibly graded series of fossils that would stand… — Niles Eldredge Copy Share Image
“During the decades after Darwin published, field geologists and paleontologists have gone on to uncover and discover thousands and thousands of fossils.… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
“I have blogged previously about the dangerous and deadly effects of science denialism, from the innocent babies unnecessarily exposed to deadly diseases… — Donald R. Prothero Copy Share Image
![“Paleontologists [fossil experts] have paid an exorbitant price for Darwin's argument. We fancy ourselves as the only true students of life's history, yet to preserve our favored account of evolution by natural selection we view our data as so bad that we almost never see the very process we…” quote by Stephen Jay Gould](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/345/stephen-jay-gould-885_accounts_paleontologists-fossil-experts-have-paid_1303150.jpg)
